CTO Breakfast Report for April 2007

Today was bring your child to CTO Breakfast day. Not officially, but
with today being Spring Break, there were a few here. I brought my
son so he could visit a friend who lives south.

Scott Lemon just got back from Web 2.0. The first thing he talked
about was Instructables,
a step-by-step collaboration site. There are all kinds of plans for
creating guns
with K'Nex. There are also other things, of course. You can get
the slides
from the talk here.

He was also pretty juiced about Joost, the P2P video application
from the creators of Skype.

We talked about good ways to record thoughts in the car. Voice memo
recorders don't generally give good quality. Jott, is something we talked about last
month which might work. An iPod with a recorder might work better.
I'll have to try it. I've got a new Giant Squid mic that
I want to try out.

Tyler Whitaker filled us in on the result's from Berkeley Data
System's latestProgramer
Deathmatch, a programming contest. I used to do these in grad
school (ACM programming contest) and they aren't easy. Solving,
optimizing, and doing it all correctly under time pressure is a
challenge even for good programmers.

We also had some good discussion of large scale systems, Twitter,
virtualization, and Web 2.0 technologies. Here's some links: